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X-rays reveal ‘dinobird’ shook patterned tail feather

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2013

Using X-rays to complete the first chemical analysis of feathers from a fossil linking dinosaurs an…

Doughnut-shaped electromagnetic fields demystify dark matter

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jul 2013

A pair of physicists say their simple theory may explain dark matter – the mysterious, invisible fo…

Mars – warm, wet and rusty long before Earth

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2013

New evidence from the NASA Mars rover suggests that the red planet was wet, warm and had oxygen bil…

UK leads the way in ‘legal high’ analysis

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2013

A team at the University of Lincoln, UK, is leading the way in new research aimed at detecting the …

Putting the physics into spin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2013

As the Ashes series gets underway next week, physicists from Australia have been exploring the phys…

Coral reef skeleton can survive even in acidic oceans

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2013

For the first time, scientists have described the biological process of how corals create their ske…

Einstein’s theory aids planet-hunters

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jun 2013

A team of astrophysicists have discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein’s…

Fibre-optic pen aids understanding of dyslexia

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013

A fibre-optic pen developed at the University of Washington will help scientists to see inside the …

New layer of human cornea discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013

Research at University of Nottingham has uncovered a previously undetected layer in the cornea, the…

Printing artificial bone

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to design synthetic bone-like materials and quickly turn…

Why strawberries taste like strawberries

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013

Researchers have discovered what gives ripe strawberries their characteristic aroma.!--more-- Acco…

Universe evolved ability to make black holes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2013

The maths underpinning Darwin’s theory of natural selection might explain how the universe may be d…

Neutrons reveal potential dangers of pharma’s golden bullet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2013

Gold nanoparticles are projected to be the ‘magic bullet’ of drug delivery, but scientists working …

Coral reefs could be saved by geoengineering

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2013

At-risk tropical coral reefs could be bought time by limiting the amount of warming experienced by …

Alligator’s smile provides tooth regeneration clues

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jun 2013

Scientists are studying alligators in order to potentially understand how to stimulate tooth regene…

Redefining the ampere

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jun 2013

The National Physical Laboratory and the University of Cambridge have joined forces in redefining t…

Flesh-eating plant discards DNA ‘junk’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jun 2013

Scientists have spent decades puzzling over why noncoding DNA makes up the majority (98%) of the hu…

Wood-eating gribble could be key to biofuel future

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2013

Studying the gribble, a tiny marine organism that eats wood, has revealed a surprising discovery th…

Modelling the Sun’s magnetic field

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2013

The important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that of the …

Control a flying robot with just your thoughts

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2013

University of Minnesota researchers have developed a new non-invasive system that allows people to …